directed by Diego Scarponi | 2021 / 79′
ferrania is a place, a factory, a brand recognized worldwide that, for decades, shaped the history of photography and cinema in Italy. Today, however, Ferrania is a desolate territory, home to many former factory workers searching for a new direction. From the installation of an explosives plant in the hamlet of Ferrania in 1915, through the Fascist era, the long period marked by the leadership of Engineer Luigi Schiatti, the acquisition by the American company 3M, the labor struggles, the speculation and the mistakes, the story leads to a near-lunar landscape of abandonment. It is here that the film’s protagonists move and where, despite everything, new entrepreneurial initiatives are still trying to be reborn.
subject and director Diego Scarponi
treatment Diego Scarponi con Federico Ferrone
editor Lorenzo Martellacci
dop Davide Rossi
sound recordist Giovanni Astengo e Alessio Fornasiero
music and sound design Simonluca Laitempergher
mix Luca Leprotti – Modulab
color correction Gianandrea Sasso
producer Claudio Giapponesi
2021
17° Biografilm Festival
Concorso Italia
a Kiné production
in association with Gargagnànfilm
in collaboration with Home Movies – National Archive of Family Film
in collaboration with Laboratorio Audiovisivi Buster Keaton – University of Genoa
in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Geronimo Carbonò
project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund 2014–2020 – Liguria Region
with the support of the Ministry of Culture – Directorate General for Cinema
with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo – ORA! Grant
with the support of Fondazione De Mari
